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Quentin Tarantino tells Jay about the making of "Inglourious Basterds."

This week's column is based on a true story. Did I get your attention? Why is it that all the awards organizations love true stories so much? So many of this year's award contenders are based on true stories: Public Enemies, The Damned United, A Woman in Berlin, Julie and Julia (229 screens), Coco Before Chanel (145 screens), Amelia (1975 screens), Bright Star (25 screens) and even The Informant! (62 screens), as well as up-and-coming contenders like Invictus and The Young Victoria. And even if they're not specifically "true" stories, we have movies like The Last Station, about a real-life person, or movies like Brothers and The Messenger with torn-from-the-headlines plots. It's getting so bad that, while watching it, I was even wondering whether Up in the Air was based on a true story. And certainly Precious seems based on a true story, even though it's very clearly "based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire." But why do we need this? Is it a cushion? What happens if we're exposed to pure imagination for a change? Would Star Trek have been better if it had been based a true story? What about Up? Could those balloons have really hauled that house halfway around the world? Probably not, but nobody questioned it for a second, and it doesn't matter.Filed under: Columns, 400 Screens, 400 BlowsContinue reading 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Based on a True Story Permalink | Email this | Comments

Maybe it's because I saw De Sica's classic Umberto D. again over the weekend, or maybe it's because I'm excited for tomorrow's release of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Cujo on DVD and Blu-ray, but I've got movie dogs on the brain. Last night I even randomly spent some time watching YouTube clips of my all-time favorite movie dog, Asta, from the Thin Man franchise (played by Skippy, who also appears in Bringing Up Baby and The Awful Truth). So it was coincidentally fun this morning learning that the Fido Awards happened over the weekend. The ceremony, nicknamed the "canine Oscars," occurred in London Saturday, when trophies were handed out in five separate categories. To my surprise, the Fidos don't exclude animated dogs, as the talking dog, Dug, from Pixar's Up won the Blockbuster Bowser award, beating out pups from Gran Torino, Inglourious Basterds and another animation, Coraline, in the category.Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Awards, Family FilmsContinue reading 'Up' and 'Marley & Me' Among Dog Movie Winners Permalink | Email this | Comments

So Tarantino is offering refunds to anyone bored by "Inglourious Basterds"... but only in Japan. Lucky bastards.

This week @JeffParsons and @CostaVidaFred are joined by @AlexSteed @MaineMom and @ErinMMoore Show Notes: Erin and Wendy talk about their planned trip to Ethiopia and what role Twitter will play Twitter gets another $100 million in venture capital and has yet to make money MySpace adds Twitter Syncing Yfrog Lets You Post Media to Twitter Via an iPhone MMS Text Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino s Top Earner Because of Twitter? Tweep Picks: Wendy: @pocklock Erin: @k_seas @griffinclubmerv Alex: @organicnation Fred:@bostonmike Jeff: @wordontweet

Myself (Welshy) and Oli just sit around and talk about things we like, we don't like and just the week in general really.

A special, early review of Inglourious Basterds! Is District 9 the next Star Wars or The Matrix-level sci fi film? Hands-on with Muramasa for the Wii! Plus, Magic: The Gathering, table-top vs XBLA

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all have/had a safe night. I'm going to spend the evening with Guitar Hero: World Tour, hot apple cider, and my confetti gun, which I'll fire off at the stoke of midnight. So what movies are you looking forward to next year? Here's my list: Watch the trailer Star Trek - Totally looks like a movie to see in IMAX. Looks like it could re-ignite the whole franchise. Go J.J. Abrams! Watch the trailer Coraline - I have a automatic bias towards anything stop-motion. And a new stop-motion in 3D directed by Henry Selick, with a story by Neil Gaiman, is not to be missed in my book. Watch the trailer The Brothers Bloom - It doesn't look like a masterpiece, but it does look like a pretty fun, imaginative ensemble "adventure" story. Watch the trailer Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - I know some are getting tired of this series, but I'm still looking forward to the new HP. Watch the trailer 9 - It's really early, but the trailer looks amazing. It's like an animated version of Wanted set in a dystopian, Tim Burton-esque world. Hannah Montana: The Movie - Just Kidding. And here's Peter's list: Watch the trailer Watchmen - Of the two most respected graphic novels in recent memory, one of them is called The Dark Knight Returns. We know how that movie turned out (even though it was inspired by that other graphic novel, The Long Halloween). The other is a less commercial but no less enduring work called Watchmen. Some claim the upcoming adaptation, which looks admirably faithful, will make The Dark Knight look like soap opera. I say that's a possibility. But then again, of the two novels, Watchmen is my undisputed favorite. Heavy on dialog, wrapped in exposition, and spanning several eras of American history, Watchmen is at least ambitious for a "comic book movie." Watch the trailer Revolutionary Road - Sam Mendes' career seemed haunted by American Beauty. Oh sure, Road to Perdition was good, but Hall's cinematography and Newman stole the show. Next up was Jarhead, and that was a critical and near-commercial disappointment. Now we have Revolutionary Road. Not only is it an adaptation of the renown novel, but it pairs up Winslet and DiCaprio since Titanic, and allows Mendes to slip on the thematic glove he wore so well in American Beauty: empty suburban lives. This one looks flawless, and may prove that American Beauty was just a warm-up. No trailer yet Public Enemies - You say that Michael Mann is directing a period gangster epic that stars Jack Sparrow and Batman, and features Doc Manhattan as J. Edgar Hoover? This movie cannot fail. While I enjoyed the Miami Vice movie (up to a point), I realize how much the majority disqualified it after the success of Collateral. Well, you have to admit that it had awesome gunfights. I expect no less from Public Enemies. No trailer yet Shutter Island - I don't think Scorsese has ever done a "pure" period mystery/thriller. That leaves me intrigued. Nevermind that I've been meaning to read the book, by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone), which has a twist ending. I think Scorsese making genuine Hollywood entertainment, as straightforward as can be, is akin to those rumors of Kubrick making a porno: because the artist in question is so over-qualified to do such a simple job, the movie must be excellent, right? The Departed was Scorsese's "first film with a plot." This one looks to be his second. No trailer yet Inglourious Basterds - I think Tarantino fell out of his quality writing period after his adaptation of Jackie Brown, which I love and consider to be superior than Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill was all direction and performance, and nothing else, and I got bored. In Volume Two, I was merely less bored. Now we have Basterds, a homage to Spaghetti Westerns. I love Spaghetti Westerns, which is all style, all performance, in all the right places. I know Kill Bill was pantomiming those old Shaw Bros. kung-fu flicks, but I thought the fight choreography was tame and, well, a little boring. They were supposed to be the centerpieces, right? At least with Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino can ditch the tame fight choreography and return to what he does best: tell stories of bad people who do bad things in an atmosphere that encourages it. Amen.